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#0272* – UKIP Members Must Wonder If David BANNERMAN Has Lost The Plot!.

Clean EUkip up NOW make UKIP electable! .

The corruption of EUkip’s leadership,

their anti UKIP claque in POWER & the NEC

is what gives the remaining 10% a bad name!.

UKIP Members Must Wonder If David BANANAMAN (Bannerman) Has Lost The Plot!The Gravitas of his representation of UKIP’s Racist EFD Chums has no relevance to Leave-The-EU!The terms on which he was Dishonestly PUT in position!

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Hi,

It is good to see EFD Members addressing the weighty matters of The EU as ever – here, in keeping with UKIP policy UKIP field David Bananaman as the comedic turn for the day – another opportunity wasted as he fails to give consideration to any British aspect.

Presumably because, having been called as a Pan EU EFD Political Group spokesman he must consider the racism, anti Judaism, Holocaust deial and violent sexual intollerance of the Group he represents so he had best stick to his specialist subject as the EU Parliament clown.

Frankly WHO CARES – what relevance does this have top ensuring these United Kingdoms Leave-The-EU but it would seem UKIP lost sight of that aim and now almost 18 years later they still have absolutely no Exit and Survival Plan!

For the record I am sure you would wish to read the regulation so that you, like David Bananaman (makes a change from dressing up as a chicken!), can ensure YOUR banana meets with the regulations!

Community legislation in force

Document 394R2257

Directory chapters where this document can be found:

[ 03.60.54 – Fresh fruit and vegetables ]

394R2257

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94 of 16 September 1994 laying down

YES there really are people wasting YOUR money inventing ‘stuff’ like this – in fact they write similar regulations on every subject imaginable. The aim would seem, quite obviously, to provide jobs for cronies within the EU’s bureaucracy at the expense of freedom, choice and entrepreneurial spirit.

So far the regulations in the English language alone run to 186,000 pages!! Interpretation of these regulations provides endless work for useless lawyers, apparatchiks and the like ensuring the demise of more and more real industries and more and more jobs.

To NO GAIN the bureaucracy of the EU grows almost exponentially and yet it is now many years since they were able to have their accounts signed off by THEIR OWN auditors. 4 – 6 Billion Pounds go missing within the EU’s administration every single year like clockwork – despite their insistence on tighter and tighter administration of people who do real work to earn the taxes the EU squanders.

Here is the text of the new accord outlined:

MEPs approve controversial banana deal

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – The European Parliament on Thursday (3 February) approved a tariff deal between the EU and Latin American banana producers, marking the end of a 16-year long trade war. MEPs also urged the bloc to boost its compensation aid to the 10 former European colonies in Africa and the Caribbean (ACP) which stand to lose from the deal.

Banana growers are keen on exporting tariff-free to the EU (Photo: Banana Link)

Under the new accord, the EU is set to lower import tariffs on bananas from Latin American countries from €176 per tonne to €114 in 2017, narrowing somewhat the gap with producers from former EU colonies, who are currently exempt from paying tariffs.

In parallel, the bloc is expected to boost its aid to the 10 ACP states – Belize, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname.

The countries are getting €200 million in aid in the 2010 to 2014 period. But MEPs want this to be topped up and extended to 2020 to help them to diversify their economies.

French Green MEP Catherine Greze, who had voted against the deal, said that the agreement was a “blow to developing countries and small banana producers” that will benefit big fruit exporters such as US giant Chiquita.

Banana producers from the EU’s overseas territories in the Canary Islands, Guadeloupe, Madeira and Martinique also slammed the EU deal.

“We regret that the end of hostilities, which was the main advantage meant to result from the Geneva agreement on bananas, has been challenged by new concessions that are unjustified and benefit only the multinationals,” the Association of European Banana Producers (APEB), representing 15,000 small farmers, said in a statement.

The Geneva agreement – a WTO-sponsored deal in 2009 between the US, the EU and Latin American banana-producing states – ended a 16-year-long international trade dispute and latest paved the way for the latest EU agreement.

In the meantime, some Latino producers, such as Colombia and Peru, have negotiated tariffs well below the €114 line with individual EU countries on a bilateral basis. Brazil is angling for 200,000 tonnes’ worth of zero tariff bananas. But, others, like Ecuador and Guatemala, had held out for the EU-wide deal, complicating the picture, and breeding resentment.

“Contrary to what the EU Commission claims, the Geneva agreement doesn’t put an end to the banana war” the APEB producers noted.

The EU is the world’s largest banana market and more then 70 percent of the yellow fruit sold in the EU comes from Latin America – mainly Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama.

Around 20 percent of bananas originate in former colonies Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Belize and Surinam. The rest are grown on EU territories: Cyprus, Greece, Madeira, Canary Islands and French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

The “banana trade war” began in 1993 when the EU established a preferential policy for imports from former British and French colonies, but earlier tensions date back as far as the 1970s.

The importance of the banana trade in Latin American history is clear to see in Guatemala. A 1954 coup d’etat in the country – broadly supported by the United Fruit Company (nowadays known as Chiquita) – plunged it into a 40-year period of dictatorships and civil war, costing the lives of over 200,000 citizens.